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Dr. Dibakar Datta is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He joined the MIE department in 2016 from Stanford University, where he was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that, he received his PhD from Brown University in 2015 with major in Solid Mechanics and minors in Physics and Chemistry. He was a visiting PhD scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania for a year (2014-2015). He obtained his Master of Science (MSc) in Computational Mechanics from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), France and Universitat Polytechnica of Catalunya (UPC), Spain (dual degree), Master of Engineering (ME) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India, and Bachelor of Engineering (BE) from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India.

His research focuses on different themes: modeling of energy storage systems such as rechargeable batteries, mechanics and electronics of nanomaterials (e.g., graphene) and other two-dimensional materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), modeling of imperfections in crystalline materials, and nanomaterials for biological problems. His research has been published in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Carbon. Prof. Datta received numerous awards such as ‘The President of India Gold Medal’ from the governor of the state of West Bengal, India. While a visiting PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, his proposals to mentor undergraduates led to prestigious LittleJohn summer funding for two students.

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Dr. Datta’s research interests are in the area of modeling of energy storage systems such as rechargeable batteries, mechanics and electronics of nanomaterials (e.g., graphene) and other two-dimensional materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), modeling of imperfections in crystalline materials, and nanomaterials for biological problems.